by Bill Rogers
Bill Rogers,
June 2017
Acknowledgments
My thanks to the usual suspects whose specialist knowledge, technical advice, and generous encouragement has been invaluable. They know who they are.
My special thanks go as always to everyone at Amazon Publishing UK and their Thomas & Mercer imprint team. To Emilie Marneur for believing in me; my Thomas and Mercer editors, Jane Snelgrove and Jack Butler, for leading me through the process with great wisdom and sensitivity; editor Russel McLean and copyeditor Marcus Trower for their ability to get inside my head, their meticulous attention to detail, and their brilliant advice. And finally, Victoire Chevalier, Editorial and Marketing Assistant, and Hatty Stiles and Nora Dunne, my Author Relations Managers, who complete the seamless package of support that made it such an agreeable and gratifying experience.
Bill Rogers
August 2017
About the Author
Photo © 2015 Paul Whur
Bill Rogers wrote ten earlier crime fiction novels featuring DCI Tom Caton and his team, set in and around Manchester. The first of these, The Cleansing, was shortlisted for the Long Barn Books Debut Novel Award, and was awarded the e-Publishing Consortium Writers Award 2011. The Pick, The Spade and The Crow was the first in a spin-off series featuring Senior Investigator Joanne Stuart, on secondment to the Behavioural Sciences Unit at the National Crime Agency, located in Salford Quay, Manchester. Formerly a teacher and schools inspector, Bill has four generations of Metropolitan Police behind him. He is married with two adult children and four grandchildren, and lives near Manchester.
